7-21-104 - Chapter definitions.
7-21-104. Chapter definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) Charter means a document containing a unified government structure, pursuant to this chapter, that constitutes the fundamental law of the unified government;
(2) Charter commission means a commission established to propose the charter to the voters for adoption as provided in this chapter;
(3) Chief executive officer of the county means the officer vested by either the county charter or general law with the executive powers of the county government;
(4) City legislative body means the city council, board of mayor and aldermen or other body possessing the legislative power and authority of the government of a municipality;
(5) County means any county whose voters have adopted a county charter government;
(6) County legislative body means that body vested by either the county charter or general law with the legislative powers of the county government;
(7) Mayor means such officer vested by either the city charter or general law with the executive powers of a municipality;
(8) Municipality means an incorporated city or town located within the boundaries of a county whose voters have adopted a county charter government;
(9) Participating governmental unit means a county whose voters have adopted a county charter government or a municipality located within that county's boundaries that has elected to participate in the preparation of a charter pursuant to this chapter;
(10) Principal city means that municipality having the largest population of any municipality in a particular county;
(11) Smaller city means any municipality within a county other than the principal city;
(12) Unification or unified means consolidation or consolidated pursuant to this chapter and that power granted by the Constitution of Tennessee, article XI, § 9 to consolidate any or all of the governmental and corporate functions now, or hereafter, vested in a county government with one (1) or more municipalities located within that county's boundaries;
(13) Unified government means the governmental entity created by the unification of the governmental and corporate functions of a charter county government with the governmental and corporate functions of one (1) or more municipalities within that county's boundaries; and
(14) Unified municipality means a former municipality that has merged into a unified government pursuant to this chapter.
[Acts 1991, ch. 497, § 104.]